Re: migrating from svn: How to clean up history?

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 13, 2011, 15:12 UTC
Message-ID: <m362hkh5em.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <4EE766D5.5040702@goebel-consult.de>

Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@goebel-consult.de> writes:

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> I'm one of the developers of www.pyinstaller.org, a tool for
> bundling/packagin Python scripts and al required modules into a single
> executable for easy distribution. We are in the process of migrating
> from Subversion to git.
> 
> Our SVN-Repo contains some stuff we do not want or do not need in the
> git repo. How can we clean this up?
> 
> 1) Useless commits e.g. tagging -> I want to remove these
> 2) copy or move mistakes -> I want to "correct" the copy

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> Any hints how to to this clean-up?

You can try "gitsvnparse" command from 'reposurgeon' tool to automatically correct some conversion mistakes, and use this tool to do further fixes

  http://www.catb.org/esr/dvcs-migration-guide.html
  http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/

HTH

-- 
Jakub Narebski